Management Team

Ralph C. Derrickson

Ralph is President and CEO of Carena. He has served as an advisor to Carena since its founding. Prior to joining Carena, Ralph was Managing Director of Venture Investments at Vulcan Capital. He is a founding partner of Watershed Capital, and is the managing member of RCollins Group, LLC. He serves on the board of directors of Perficient (NASDAQ: PRFT).

Ralph is on the faculty of the Michael G. Foster School of Business at the University of Washington, and is a member of the Executive Advisory Board of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Washington. He is a member of the President’s Circle of the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. Ralph holds a bachelor’s degree from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Peg Carver

Peg is the Executive Vice President of Engagement at Carena. She has worked in the health care industry for 20 years, with expertise in communications, client services, products, and health care management. Prior to joining Carena, she served as Vice President of Consumer Engagement for Optum, a division of UnitedHealth Group that provides personal health management programs to 27 million members nationwide. Peg was also Vice President of Healthcare Operations for SHPS, a health management and employee benefits administration company. She has also worked for the American Red Cross, Virginia Mason Medical Center, and as a television news reporter for various stations in the Midwest. Peg graduated from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Cecily Hall

Cecily is Vice President of Operations for Carena. Prior to joining Carena, Cecily spent nearly 18 years with the Microsoft Corporation. In her role as the Director of US Benefits, Cecily was responsible for more than 65 benefit plans, programs, and services, involving more than 45 vendor partners and serving approximately 140, 000 employees and family members. Some of Cecily’s benefit plan work at Microsoft has gained national recognition including acknowledgment by the Clinton Administration and President Obama.

Cecily serves on the Board of Directors for Overlake Hospital Medical Center and the Bailey-Boushay House, a facility owned by Virginia Mason Medical Center. In 2007, Cecily accepted an appointment to the Business Advisory Group for The Joint Commission.

Cecily attended Carroll College and the University of Montana Business School. She has served as a visiting faculty member for the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education and she is pursuing her Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation. Prior to joining Microsoft, Cecily worked for Nordstrom, Inc. for 10 years holding positions in sales, business management, and human resources.

Frances Gough, M.D.

Dr. Gough is the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs. After completing her residency at the University of Utah School of Medicine and teaching appointments at the University of Utah and at the Scripps Clinic in California, she spent 8 years as a practicing physician with Overlake Internal Medicine Associates in Bellevue, Wash. In 1997, Dr. Gough co-founded Sound Health Solutions, a local weight and health risk management company that received national recognition for its work with corporate self-insured companies providing programs for their high-risk, obese populations. Dr. Gough started Sound Health Solutions in a  Medical Director role, and functioned as Chief Medical Officer since 2008. As a supplement to Sound Health Solutions, she co-developed SoundWeight.com, a Web-based weight management program. Dr. Gough is an acclaimed author, with published articles regarding the multidisciplinary management of obesity and its impact on reducing corporate health care costs.

Dr. Gough is actively involved with the Bellevue Rotacare Clinic, is a member of the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NAASO), and is part of the active staff at Overlake Hospital Medical Center. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Seattle University, an MD degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine, and completed post-graduate training at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Gough is ABIM board certified in Internal Medicine.

Teri Bellamy

Teri is the CFO and Vice President of Finance. She has more than 20 years of experience working with small, growing companies and not-for-profit organizations, specializing in taxation and the evaluation and design of systems to improve financial efficiencies. Prior to joining Carena, Teri was the Finance Director for The Center for Courage and Renewal, an educational not-for-profit dedicated to providing high quality professional development for public school educators and other professionals. She also worked as the business manager for SeaShare, an organization that distributes seafood for hunger relief efforts nationwide. Teri’s previous public accounting experience includes positions with both a Big Four Firm and a large regional firm. She has served on the boards of Hospice of Kitsap and Bainbridge Graduate Institute. Teri is a certified CPA and holds a bachelor’s degree from Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore.

Ted Conklin, M.D.

Dr. Conklin is the founder of Carena and is the Chairman of Elliot Bay Medical Group PS, Carena’s contracted medical partner. He has more than 14 years of clinical experience as a family practitioner. After completing his residency at Oregon Health Sciences University, he spent eight years as a Clinical Assistant Professor with the University of Washington Medical School teaching in Swedish Hospital’s Family Practice Residency program. He also served as Assistant Chief of Family Medicine, Chief of Family Medicine, and as a Quality Management Representative at Swedish Medical Center. From 1995 to 1998, Dr. Conklin worked with Swedish Partners Medical Group. In 1998, he founded Elliott Bay Physicians, which soon became Carena’s first contracted medical group.

Dr. Conklin is a member of the Washington State Medical Society, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and the American Medical Association. He is board-certified in the specialty of Family Medicine, and is licensed to practice medicine in Washington. Dr. Conklin was named one of “Seattle’s Top Docs” by his peers in 2000 and 2002, as reported in Seattle Magazine. He holds bachelor’s and MD degrees from Tufts University, and completed post-graduate training at Oregon Health Sciences University, with a focus in family medicine.

Fred Pabst

Fred Pabst is Director of Business Development at Carena. He has over 13 years of experience in human resources, business development and consulting. Fred was most recently Manager of Corporate Relations in the Internal Communications Department at Washington Mutual. Before joining WaMu, he was Executive Vice President and Public Sector Practice Leader for Waldron & Company, a local Seattle firm providing retained search, corporate-sponsored outplacement, and executive coaching services. He has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology from San Diego State University. Fred is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), is a past president of the Seattle Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), serves on several not-for-profit boards and is active in his community.

Carla Harding

Carla Harding is the Director of Operations at Carena. She has worked in the health care industry for nearly 15 years, 10 of which were spent working with the founder of Carena, Ted Conklin, M.D. Carla has been a part of the Carena team since its inception as OnSiteDocs in 2000, and now manages the Patient Care Coordinator team and oversees Carena’s daily clinical operations.

Alex Davis

Alex is the Director of Technology at Carena. Prior to joining Carena, he worked for Accenture Consulting based at the London Stock Exchange. He was responsible for supporting the corporate Web site, as well as system architecture, design, and support of the systems. Alex also worked for Logicalis, an IT solution provider based in the United Kingdom. Alex has worked in information technology for more than 10 years and received his degree from the University of Portsmouth (England). Alex was born in the United Kingdom, and now lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.